Two types of UV radiation that penetrate the skin are UV-B and UV-A rays.
UV-B rays penetrate the top layers of skin and are most responsible for sunburns.
UV-A rays penetrate to the deeper layers of the skin and are often
associated with allergic reactions, such as a rash.

lurcher1948

Gezza

Gezza

Pickled Possum

Oh Lurch WHY you? WHY not? … it appears you have a wicked sense of humour, put up with being spoken to like a (…..) inset your fave word there. You just get on with reporting the news from other blogs and potus#45 twitter feed or is that Gez?
Keep on keeping us up to scratch on the dogz etc.
Any way, any friend of Aunti Kitty is a friend of Aunti Possums.
And as an after thought; we couldn’t possible keep you out of it. 😉

PartisanZ

With the right leadership personality (or co-leadership, though it seems unlikely) and good mix of candidates TOP will easily cross the 5% threshold in 2020 because its evidence-based policies are sane, sensible and compassionate, many glaringly obvious and long overdue …

I don’t necessarily go along with O’Sullivan’s plans to reduce the health budget. Where does cutting costs by replacing staff [people] with technology [computers and machines] end?

The current government’s Shane Jones says they’re going to rejuvenate forestry via PGF and planting a billion trees, yet I watched ‘Making of NZ’ doco ‘Forestry’ and there was a large, swanky, modern sawmill staffed by just TWO people … and the number of workers toiling out in the bush is constantly being reduced by ever more sophisticated machinery …

Yet those same workers get called lazy dole bludgers when they can’t find a job in remote areas …

Pickled Possum

Morena Parti you said ….
“Where does cutting costs by replacing staff [people] with technology [computers and machines] end?”

When there are enuff doctors to cover the outta reaches of the Far North. So till then skype appointments will have to do … much better than waiting for a crisis then truck on into the nearest town a 2 hour trip. Or calling the Heli-med chopper.

I do not like his “proposed penalising beneficiaries who do not get their children vaccinated.”

Corky

lurcher1948

Its 2.30pm and NZME newstalkZB has been slagging labour since 8.30am, i wonder which party NZME/nz herald are backing its hard to work out,opps larry williams is on soon,the assaulted children’s age will drop to 13 now so i will have to put another broadcasting complaint in as FAKE,alt news rules these days on ZB.

Gezza

Gezza

David

Ardern has a big problem coming down the pipeline unless Winston disappoints whoever he was trying to please with his cozying up to the Russians. The EU ambassador has already cancelled her visit here so no chance of a trade deal because of his attitude and our British friends are demanding our support against Russia. Winnie is going to have to disavow them and quickly.

Gezza

Pickled Possum

Americans consume 99 percent of the hydrocodone sold worldwide and 81 percent of all oxycodone — approximately 30 times more than medically necessary for the population size of the U.S.

Between 2002 and 2015, opioids killed an estimated 202,600 Americans
Overdose cases increased by more than 30 percent across the U.S. between July 2016 and September 2017. In the Midwest region, overdose cases rose by 70 percent and overdose mortality by 14 percent

Preliminary data for 2016 reveals the death toll from drug overdoses may be as high as 65,000, exceeding both the AIDS epidemic at its peak and the death toll of the Vietnam War in its entirety

The opioid epidemic has resulted in lowered life expectancy for both men and women in the U.S. for the second year in a row.
Shit!